All grown up

Last night I asked Lil'Foo if he would throw away a diaper for me. All of a sudden he runs away to the bathroom, obviously nature was calling. After he got on the potty he opened the door a crack and said "Just wait Mama, I will throw it away when I am done" and shut the door again. He sounded so grown up!

Other things Lil'Foo has said in the last few days....

"I think that's a great idea!"

"Mama, that's a fabulous house"

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh" (while getting soaped up in the tub)

"What do we need next?" (While helping me cook)

"I think I can do that"

Happy Halloween (belated)

So here they are pictures of MiniFoo and Lil'Foo in their costumes for Halloween. I didn't get a good one of them together and even the ones alone didn't turn out that well, so much for the digital camera proof. I tried to get Lil'Foo to dress up again in his costume but so far he won't do it so I will have to make do with the pictures I have... so here they are! Enjoy!!! (and if you can't tell, MiniFoo is a Dragon and Lil'Foo is a Knight)

I have TWO blogs now!! :)

Don't stop reading this one but if you are looking for something new to cook check out my new blog....

http://allaboutfoodrecipes.blogspot.com/

Enjoy!!!!

Tool Time

So Lil'Foo has been in a phase where he want's to know what everyone's name is. So when he is watching TV he will ask what everyone's name is. One night we were flipping channels and landed on Home Improvement. Lil'Foo has seen this a few times and went through his name questions before but this is what I got this time......

Lil'Foo: Is that Tim?
Me: Yep
Lil"Foo: And is that Al?
Me: Yep
Lil'Foo: And Tim works with Al?
Me: He sure does

Too CUTE!!

Okay so this isn't even about MY kids! Check out my sister's friend's daughter in her comment on my October 1st post! (it's a link you can click on)
I am gonna have to try to top that with a way too adorable picture of my two on Halloween... sorry you will have to just stay tuned until then, no hints or anything! The only clue you get is that KT made the suggestion a few months ago and we took it and it's going to be GREAT!!

Stupid

BigFoo after accidentally pulling out in front of a van while driving: "Woah, Daddy was stupid for doing that!"
Lil'Foo: "Daddy, you not stupid"
BigFoo: "I'm not?"
Lil'Foo: "No, you just fine?"

Okay, everyone all at once... AWE :)

The Negotiator

Not only is "The Negotiator" a good movie (Kevin Spacey and Samuel L Jackson) my son has become one....
The other night it was time to get ready for bed and I asked Lil'Foo to go get his pajamas and night time underwear and he could get dressed in the living room. This was his response: "How about you get my pajamas and I will get my night time underwear" He won that one, I'm not going to argue with him if he is actually going to get ready without throwing a fit!
I heard the other day that if you are a good negotiator with your kids that they won't even know you are doing it. I think Lil'Foo has surpassed me on this one.......

A month of Milestones for MiniFoo

MiniFoo decided that September was the month that she would do everything! After the grandparents left from a Labor day visit MiniFoo decided that she would start to crawl, then not even two weeks later she decided that crawling wasn't good enough and started to pull herself up into a standing position and she did this all while cutting her two bottom teeth!
Maybe she should be Wonder Woman for Halloween :)

I wonder what she has in store for us this next month (she just turned 9 months old)....stay tuned.....

My 3.5 year old is "reading"

I couldn't believe it last night. I was feeding Minifoo her well blended mixed veggies and fruit mix and Lil'Foo came over and pointed out that Minifoo's face was full of food. I told him it's okay because babies are messy eaters. Lil'Foo disappears for a mintue and then comes back to the table with a tiny book...

Lil'Foo: Like this Mama? Babies are messy eaters.

To my amazement he got a book that he hasn't read in ages and turned right to the page that shows a picture of a baby with a messy food face and reads "Babies are messy eaters" My mouth dropped, maybe 3.5 year olds are already suppose to be doing this, I have no idea but it floored me. But WAIT it gets better! Lil'Foo then proceeds to turn the pages and tell me almost word for word what each page says! He does this for the full 6 or so pages of the book.
Now, are 3.5 year olds suppose to be able to memorize a book completely that they haven't read in a good 6 months?
But WAIT it gets EVEN beter!!! Lil'Foo then pulls out another small book of first words and starts to "read" that one.

Lil'Foo: Cat, Glasses...The cat wears the glasses...

he completes the whole book....simple little $1 books that I picked up at Target once, now I feel they were probably one of the best "investments"!

3 going on 16

Lil' Foo has decided that he wants to drive. While getting ready one morning we had this conversation.

Lil'Foo: Mama, I go to J's today?
Me: Yes, you are going to J's today.
Lil'Foo: I go in your car?
Me: No, we will take daddy's car since your seat is in there.
Lil'Foo: You drive daddy's car?
Me: Yes, I will drive you in daddy's car
Lil'Foo: I want to drive daddy's car!
Me: No, you can't drive until you are 18...well....16 if I'm nice
Lil'Foo: But I am 16!!!
Me: No you are 3 that is a long way from 16
Lil'Foo: No I AM 16!!!
Me: Well, You are too short, how are you going to reach the peddals?
No response from Lil'Foo after that....

If you say it fast enough....

If a 3 year old says it fast enough....Old McDonald had a farm sounds like......Oh my god I farted!

Spider Pig

While sitting watching Saturday morning cartoons:

LilFoo: Mama! Mama! I got it!
Me: Got what?
LilFoo: "whatever a spider pig does"
Me: Oh! You did! "Spider Pig, Spider Pig, Does whatever a spider pig does"

No, he has not seen the Simpsons movie but they have had so many comercials with the Spider Pig scene that Lil'Foo caught on but couldn't put together all the words for the last part. Poor thing must have been milling over that for a whole week trying to get the words right in his head!! But he's persistant and it paid off. I am just happy to see that he stuck with something until he got it right, I don't care if it is a line from the Simpsons movie!!

Have you Ever....

Have you ever been in the bathroom of a plane when it has landed?
Have you ever been rushed out of the bathroom of the plane when it was about to land?

BigFoo and I have!
On our flights to and from Buffalo Lil'Foo had impeckable timing with his need to go potty. First with our flight from Minneapolis to Detroit Lil'Foo had to go pee after we had already started the decent. I ran him back to the bathroom and the flight Attendants (who were already strapped in for landing) told us to make it quick. I squeezed in the bath room with Lil'Foo and dropped his pants and underwear in one quick swoop and proceeded to try to rush him, knowing in my head that it wasn't going to work. After a few seconds Lil'Foo tells me that he has to poop too. GREAT! What else can happen? So by this time I can tell that we are really close to landing and I keep asking Lil'Foo if he's done and of course he's not. I then squish my body into a squatting position in the area that is left and hold on to Lil'Foo who is sitting on the potty with no clue in the world as to what is going on. We hit pavement and Lil'Foo was startled. I held on to him as he swayed side to side from the force of the plane landing, rolls of toilet paper and paper towels fell on my head. Lil'Foo now declares that he is done. (I have to say that the landing litterally scared the shit out of him! :) )

Now, you would think that an experiance like that would help a kid realize that there are good and bad times to go potty...Not my Lil'Foo!

On our way back home on our flight from Buffalo to Detroit (which is a really quick flight) Lil'Foo first decided that he had to go potty right when we were about to take off, but since he had just went in the airport we made him wait, and then once we were up in the air we forgot that he had to go (our first mistake). Then of course once we started the decent Lil'Foo REALLY had to go and he had to poop and we could tell that he wouldn't make it if he didn't go now. So this time BigFoo takes him back. As we start to get lower and lower I begin to worry and think that BigFoo would get to experiance the same thing that I had before. But this time was different. The Lead Flight attendant calls over the overcom that they need all passengers to be seated....2 seconds later she states it again. People start looking around to see who is missing from their seats...2 more seconds later and the flight attendant comes on again and now sounds frantic and says that all passengers need to be seated before they can land the plane and if they aren't then we will have to circle around. GREAT! My husband and son are AWOL and the majority of the other passengers are already late for their connecting flights! 2 more seconds later, the flight attendant comes running down the asile and then you can hear her saying "come on, hurry up, get into your seats" and then I see my Lil'Foo confused as all get out but yet with out a care in the world walking back to his seat along with a flustered BigFoo. They get seated and buckeled in and people are still looking at them so BigFoo says loudly "What am I to do? My kid had to go!" So we did land and didn't have to circle around and make others late and all was well, sort of :)

Sorry

Hi to all or any of you that read this Blog. Sorry I haven't had any stories up lately. It's be a busy few weeks but I do have stories to tell, it's just finding the time to type them up. So please stick with me and I will have some stuff for you to read about our vacation!
Oh and for those of you who were having problems leaving comments I have now changed it so you don't have to have a login to comment so comment away and let me know you are reading! :)

The Lost Poop

Lil'Foo: "Oh, I lost it!"
BigFoo: "lost what?"
Lil'Foo: "My poop, where'd it go?" as he is peering in to the potty
BigFoo: "Oh, it's down there hiding, you just can't see it" as he is peering into the potty with Lil'Foo
Lil'Foo: "Oh, I'm gonna make another one"

To the Extreme

To the extreme I rock the mic like a vandal
Light up the stage and watch it jump like a candle
Will it ever stop?
Yo, I don't know
Turn off the lights and I'll glow

Okay that is not really what my title means but it came to mind when I wrote it. Ah, yes the 90's and white rappers like Vanilla Ice, gotta love it :)

So every morning for me is completely different and I have yet to figure out a happy medium. One morning I can sleep until 7 am and still get in the shower before the kids even wake up and still get out of the house on time for work. Then I have mornings like Wednesday...or was it Tuesday? See! I can't even remember!! Anyway, Lil'Foo wakes up at the ungodly time of 5:55 am and comes into our room and this conversation happens:

Lil'Foo: "Mama, Mama, What time is it?"
Me: "it's 5:55, way too early to be up"
Lil'Foo: "Well, sometimes it happens"....."Mama! Wook MiniFoo awake!"
Now I HAVE to get up!

And can you believe that the majority of the time that I am running late for work are the days that I am up eariler?!?

Boobies

Lil'Foo has now become interested in my boobs so here are some of the comments/questions he has come up with recently....

Lil'Foo: Mama, You got muscles? (pointing to my boobs)
Me: Kinda, these are my boobs


Lil'Foo: Mama, is this your bra?
Me: Yes
Lil'Foo: Your boobs go in there?
Me: Yes they do.


Lil'Foo: Mama, is this your boob? (patting my boob as he is asking)
Me: Yes
Lil'Foo: You need to tape those down (I have no idea where this thought came from and probably will never will!)

I will never understand the facination boys/men have with boobs! :)

Caveman

While watching a prehistoric episode of Spongebob....

Lil'Foo: Mama! What's that??
Me: That's a Caveman picking his nose....It kinda looks like you
Lil'Foo: NO MAMA! It's Daddy

And we all erupt in laughter :)

Sucess?

We now have 2 full weeks of potty training under our belts with Lil'Foo and it seems as though we have sucess! We will try hard not to let our guard down though! We have some how gone from a step stool and potty seat on the regular toilet to no step stool and no extra potty seat in two small weeks! This has allowed us to got to friends houses and out different places with Lil'Foo with no issues or accidents. I think it helps that we have a portable timer that reminds us that he needs to go too. Etiher way we are all VERY happy about this accoplishment that Lil'Foo has done!!!! And for your enjoyment here are a few quotes from the lil' one himself.....

"Mama, hurry up I got to pee!!"
"Just go away, I'm pooping"
"Are you proud of me?"

And some that we have taught him to say....
"I pitty the Foo!"
"I ain't go no time for that jibba jabba!"

More to follow soon, I am sure the 4th of July will bring some :)

Potty Training

Potty training can be REALLY expensive!
We decided to finally really push potty training with Lil'Foo this weekend. It's been chaotic to say the least but it seems to be working! We would like to get away from the Pull-ups, those wonderful diapers that are advertised as "big kid" underwear but as one lady put it in a book that we started reading..."a diaper is a diaper is a diaper!" they just can charge more for these. And they do!! So good buy to pull-ups for the most part, we will just use them for nap time and bedtime.
What became really expensive on this potty training endeavor is the little accident that happened yesterday, on Father's day of all days. After one of Lil'Foo's successful times on the potty he went to flush the toilet and after he flushed he told me that his pee guard fell in the toilet. I told him it was okay and I would get it out of the water for him. But when I looked in the toilet it wasn't there!! It wasn't on the floor or any where to be found! It had been flushed down the toilet and the toilet was acting funny. We tried the plunger and that didn't seem to help so we knew then that we would have to make call to a plumber and pay the triple overtime for a Sunday evening call on Fathers day! We did and they arrived around 8pm and gave us 3 scenarios that could happen, prices ranging from $300 to $3,000!!! We crossed our fingers and hoped that it would be the $300. The plumber spent 45 minutes trying to "fish" out the pee guard and it was starting to look grim and then on his last try and 4 large wads of toilet paper later it was pretty clear that the pee guard had moved on to the main pipe where it would flow away. Yey! Only a $300 potty training lesson!!!
For all of you new parents who are about to embark on potty training...buy a potty chair that has the pee guard as part of the potty chair not a separate flip up and down removable piece like we had!!!! Trust me it will save you money!!!!
Happy potty training!!!

Target

Here is a conversation that happened when I came home with bags from Target....

Lil'Foo: What's that?
BigFoo: It looks like Mama spent another $100 at Target
Me: Actually $92
BigFoo: $100
Lil'Foo: No Daddy that's $50
BigFoo: $50 at Target? That's impossible!
Lil'Foo: No Daddy, it's not impossible!

Later that evening......
Me: I don't know what I'm hungry for
BigFoo: I'm hungry for love

Poop

Is it sad when you get excited that your 3 year old son has pooped on the potty 3 days in a row at daycare? (knock on wood)!!
And how do you handle a call at work from your son saying that he pooped on the potty?? It's hard to sound excited when you are trying to be quiet so those near you don't here you getting excited over poop in a potty. So I ask...BigFoo, how did you handle it??? :)

Ripe and Ready to eat

Sorry, everyone took a little vacation over the holiday weekend :)

BigFoo places a sticker on my butt that reads "I'm Ripe and Ready to Eat". Later Lil'Foo sees it and says "Mama there's a sticker on your butt!!!" I told him that daddy did it to me to which he scolded "you not suppose to do that!"

Lil'Foo introducing kitty to friends that came over for supper "That's my best friend kitty"

Lil'Foo's question while I am changing MiniFoo's diaper "Mama, does she have 2 pee-pees?"

Naked

When I returned home from work the other day Lil'Foo was in the hallway taking his time getting his pull up on. I came over to say hi to him and this is what I got instead....

Lil'Foo: "Look mama, I negged (naked)"
Lil'Foo then proceeds to stick his butt up in the air for me to see...
Lil'Foo: "Look mama, Look!"

What a nice welcome home from my wonderful Lil'Foo :)

Pregnancy Pant Intervention

So BigFoo feels that there needs to be a "Pregnancy Pant Intervention" on my behalf. Why? Because it has been 5 months since I gave birth to MiniFoo and I still wear my materity jeans. And why do I still where them? Well, I could come up with numerous reasons....
1) They fit
2) They were $40+ dollars to buy for less than 9 months of wear
3) You can't tell they are maternity pants unless my shirts come up too far and you see the large cloth belly band
But in my defense, I did retire these from wearing them to work and "fancy" public places. I have limited their use to the weekends, over to the neighbors, to Cub, Home Depot and any other place that I am not as concerned what other people think. I have also held on to them because I have a limited supply of "regular" clothes and when you have a little one that likes to spit up on herself and you then you need multiple items to change into during the day so you aren't sitting in your underwear while the laundry is going.
Now I know that Stacy and Clinton on What Not to Wear would slap me across the face for what I just said but it's true and I don't have $5000 to buy a whole new wardrobe or add to what I have. Not that what I have is spectacular either but it doesn't have to be because I am in a job where some days boxes and equipment get me dirty and it would be the day that I wear something nice that I would get dirty. Not to mention I don't have time to take care of expensive clothing, I need stuff that I can just throw in the wash, dry it and wear it.
So thank you to my sister-in-law for the gift card to Old Navy because they have practical/in the budget clothing when you can find what you want that fits :)

My 3 year old the Planner

So now Lil'Foo has become a little planner. Almost everynight when he goes to bed we have to have a discussion on what he will do the next day otherwise he won't go to sleep. Here is how the conversations go:

Lil'Foo: I go to OY's (his friend across the street) house tomorrow?
Me: Maybe but you have to go to J's (daycare) first.
Lil'Foo: And then OY's house?
Me: We will have to see if OY can play.(not wanting to commit to something that might not happen)
Lil'Foo: I have pancakes, then go to J's and then call if OY can play?
Me: Yes
Lil'Foo: OY is at his grandparents and TY (OY's Dad) is sick.
Me: Oh, they are?
Lil'Foo: Yes
Me: Okay, well you can still go outside when you get home from J's
Lil'Foo: okay, I have pancakes, then go to J's, then go outside, and watch a movie.
Me: we will see if we can fit that all in.

Then it is finally on to the goodnights, I love you's and finally sleep :)

I love that!

Lil'Foo to Kitty: "Kitty, Kitty look at my new shoes"

Lil'Foo: Mama! Look there's poop in my diaper
Me: Oh, that's just a skid mark
Lil'Foo: A skid mark?

Lil'Foo on Commercials:
Lil'Foo: Mama, what's that?
Me: Those are Aqua Dots
Lil'Foo: Oh, I LOVE Aqua Dots
Rinse and repeat for each commercial

For good measure I do remind Lil'Foo that just because he loves something doesn't mean he's going to get it.

The things we do for our children

Playdoh Patrick Star and Spongebob Squarepants
Now drying for LittleFoo to play with tomorrow.

Too much SpongeBob??

LittleFoo: I wanna watch Spongebob
Me: Spongebob isn't on right now and it is WAY past your bed time
LittleFoo: Oh Barnacles!


BigFoo: Some sugar for my sugar


LittleFoo: What's that smell? What's that smell? I think Mama farted. (which I hadn't!!)

Hot houses and camo pants

BigFoo: "It is kind of hot in this house hon, especially when you walked in"

Conversation about pants that I was looking at online, I was looking at black ones and BigFoo saw that they came in camo print also....

Me: not much of a camo gal
BigFoo: mmm, but how those shapes would move on that sweet butt of yours
Me: oh good lord! :p

"It's not my fault"

Last night LittleFoo started claiming that everything wasn't his fault.
While in the tub splashing water all over he was told to stop and he claims "It's not my fault"
While throwing away a paper plate with mustard an mayo on it and getting it all over the place "It's not my fault"
I didn't like hearing this claim so I explained to him that he is the only one around, there are not 10 kids here doing it so it IS your fault. While I was saying this I realized that this probably wasn't the best approach and was probably way over his understanding but to my amazement LittleFoo replies...
"You're right Mama, you're right"

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Unforgettable One Liners from my husband who we will call BigFoo and my 3 year old son who we will call LittleFoo (I will add my daughter, MiniFoo, when she starts talking) I thought it would be fun to record these to share and look back on when we need a laugh or two.
WARNING: My BigFoo's one liners will sound a lot like pick up lines you would hear in a bar and I do not recommed anyone trying these out in public unless you want to get the following reactions: rolling of eyes, shaking of head in dissappointment, sarcastic laughter etc. These will contain sexual innuendo.

ENJOY!!!